Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works—The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one […]
I collect words. I hadn’t seen it quite this way before, but in this getting ready to move process I’ve been going through all our possessions–sorting, sifting, tossing and boxing. And one thing has become obvious, I am packing a lot of words away! My boxes are full of them. It’s almost embarrassing to assemble […]
I’m noticing in my reading this week the dramatic effect that words can have, depending on their source. The contrast is clear in two instances recorded in II Samuel 20. First, “There happened to be there a worthless man… And he blew the trumpet and said…” People followed him, as people will, and soon a […]
The older I get, the more I value it—peace and quiet. Not just a literal quietness but a calm unruffled-ness, an absence of strife… but what is a mother to do? The kids may get older, the tensions subtler, (or at least not over blocks and toys), but the concerns of a mother only get […]